/**************************************************************************** * libs/libc/spawn/lib_task_spawn.c * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The * ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the * License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ****************************************************************************/ /**************************************************************************** * Included Files ****************************************************************************/ #include #include #include #if defined(CONFIG_LIB_SYSCALL) && !defined(CONFIG_BUILD_KERNEL) /**************************************************************************** * Public Functions ****************************************************************************/ /**************************************************************************** * Name: task_spawn * * Description: * This function marshals task_spwan() parameters and invokes the * nx_task_spawn() system call. * * task_spawn() and posix_spawn() are NuttX OS interfaces. In PROTECTED * and KERNEL build modes, then can be reached from applications only via * a system call. Currently, the number of parameters in a system call * is limited to six; these spawn function have seven parameters. Rather * than extend the maximum number of parameters across all architectures, * I opted instead to marshal the seven parameters into a structure. * * * Input Parameters: * file_actions - The address of the posix_spawn_file_actions_t to be * initialized. * * Returned Value: * On success, these functions return 0; on failure they return an error * number from . * ****************************************************************************/ int task_spawn(FAR pid_t *pid, FAR const char *name, main_t entry, FAR const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *file_actions, FAR const posix_spawnattr_t *attr, FAR char * const argv[], FAR char * const envp[]) { struct spawn_syscall_parms_s parms; parms.pid = pid; parms.name = name; parms.entry = entry; parms.file_actions = file_actions; parms.attr = attr; parms.argv = (FAR char * const *)argv; parms.envp = (FAR char * const *)envp; return nx_task_spawn(&parms); } #endif /* CONFIG_LIB_SYSCALL && !CONFIG_BUILD_KERNEL */